[PATCH v2 1/2] USB: chipidea: add imx usbmisc support

[Felipe Balbi]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:13:52PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:51:55PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:30:18AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> > > On 07/23/2012 11:27 AM, Richard Zhao wrote:
> > > >> This patch looks like a recipe for disaster IMHO, but it's Alex's call.
> > > > Well, if there's any better place to hold it, I'd like to move there.
> > > > Another place is arch/arm/mach-imx. Sascha/Shawn who are maintainers of
> > > > imx are also in cc list.
> > > 
> > > IMHO it's not about the place where the driver is located, it's about
> > > the shortcomings Michael and Sascha mentioned.
> Thanks, Marc.
> > 
> > exactly. It's not about where a file is placed or how it's called. It's
> > how you decided to implement it. This will prevent a platform with
> > multiple instances of the IP to be used, at least.
> To me, usbmisc on imx6 is just a set of non-core registers which is
> companion of Chipidea IP cores. All cores share the same usbmisc.
> From design perspective, ci13xxx_imx knows nothing about usbmisc. It
> just call the ops in proper occasion. usbmisc driver wrappers all
> SoC specific things.

but if all you need is to call and initialization function, why don't
you just do it on probe() of that usbmisc stuff ? Is this usbmisc used
only for this USB IP ?

-- 
balbi
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